Appearing with Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) at a Wall Street Journal breakfast Wednesday morning, Mr. Schumer declared the tea party movement has “peaked” and said Mr. Cochran’s comeback victory over challenger Chris McDaniel was “not an aberration.” That dynamic, the New York Democrat said, will free House Republicans to support an immigration reform package that could be political trouble if they feared a conservative backlash against it.

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